things that is easy to misunderstand. what it sounds like the republican sponsor of the alabama abortion ban is saying here is that a woman will still be allowed to get an abortion in alabama as long as she doesn t know she s pregnant. i think that s what he s saying here, but that is incomprehensible. just roll that part of the debate again. say it again. does the bill make exception for patients who are victim of rape? and of course i kind of know the answer. can you tell me why it doesn t? it allows for anything that s available today is still available up until that woman knows she s pregnant. so there is a window of time, some say seven days. some say ten. there is a window of time that every option that s on the table now is still available.
is doing, where they have control in the states. they re not moving anymore to limit abortion. they re moving to ban it all together, full stop. it s happening all at once in a new radical republican party wide draconian effort that we have never seen before. and that sounds unconstitutional, right? because you re not supposed to be able to been abortion that would be against the law. that s of course the entire point here, though. with republicans being very pleased with their position on the supreme court right now with the merrick garland nomination from president obama having been denied as improper by mitch mcconnell as the republican leader in the senate and mitch mcconnell calling that one of his proudest moments in the senate since the current president put brett kavanaugh on the supreme court, for the first time conservatives think they ve got a solid right wing majority on the high court that will overturn roe v. wade as long as they get the chance. they have to get a law up
so they can overturn roe and declare that abortion can be banned in states that are republican controlled and anybody that wants to do it across the country. all these republican-controlled states this year are tripping over themselves to make it happen. but alabama so far is in a class by itself. lots of other states are trying to ban abortion at six weeks, which is before 90% of women wouldn t even know they were pregnant. alabama isn t even bothering with exceptions for pregnancies that took place because of rape or incest. this guy who wrote alabama s total and complete abortion ban says bringing one of those laws was the exception to the supreme court right now. he said that would be a wasted opportunity. he said, quote, why not go all the way? in response to this alabama ban, the new york times editorial board interestingly sort of pulled the ripcord today. i read this as them breaking glass in case of emergency with the times editorial published today was essentially a pri
you re pregnant, and then you can t have any more abortions. i don t but if you want to see the republican party s gobsmacking approach to this, and if you want to see it get sort of scary fast, he will tell you that later when that same republican lawmaker was asked how under his total ban on abortion a woman who had a miscarriage could prove that she d had a miscarriage and not a criminal felony abortion, his reply was, quote, the burden of proof would be on the prosecution, not on the female. the prosecution would have to prove that. so don t worry. alabama woman who has just had a miscarriage with all of the attendant grief and terror and upset this has caused you in your life, don t worry if you ve had a miscarriage, you ll be fine, as long as the prosecutor can prove that you had a miscarriage. guess how the prosecutor is going to prove it? yeah, guess. the voodoo in the chromosomes, who knows. that total ban on abortion in alabama passed the senate last
night. tonight the state s republican governor signed it into law. this is the strictest abortion ban to pass the legislature. it s not just happening in alabama. it is happening all over the country in all the states where republicans have full control. this is what republicans are doing with their control of state government. including alabama. we ve got radical restrictive abortion bans passing at least one chamber of the state legislature. so far in already half, already 11 of the 22 states under republican control, plus one more in montana where republicans control the legislature, but there the democratic governor, that democratic governor who vetoed one of these anti-abortion bills in his state last week, he is going to be here in just a moment talk about his presidential bid. the gudmaker institute tracks abortion. they say they have never seen anything like what we are seeing this year in 2019. quote, the extreme nature of this year s bills is unprecedented. but that s what re